An online hacker has stolen Bollywood actor, Salman Khan, and Google CEO, Sundar Pichai’s personal data from Twitter and has reportedly also put up the personal data of 40 million Twitter accounts for sale on the dark web.
The micro-blogging site is facing its biggest leak to date. Hudson Rock, an Israeli cyber intelligence company, has reported that hackers have claimed to have stolen 40 million Twitter accounts’ data and put it up for sale on the dark web.
That’s not all. High-profile users like the CEO of Google and the Indian Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Sundar Pichai as well as Dabangg star Salman Khan were among those whose data was stolen.
According to the Hudson Rock report, personal data on the dark web include email, username, followers, and even phone numbers of 40 million Twitter users.
“I am selling data of +400 million unique Twitter users that was scrapped via a vulnerability, this data is completely private,” the the hacker reportedly wrote on a social media post.
Notably, Elon Musk‘s Twitter had a data breach that reportedly exposed the user data of more than 5.4 million users just a few months ago. The past leak is being investigated by the Irish Data Protection Commission.
According to reports, the hacker offered to Twitter CEO Elon Musk a deal and has since written,
Twitter or Elon Musk, if you are reading this post, you are already at risk of GDPR fines for the data leak of over 54 million users. Now fines for data leak of 400 million users. Your best option to avoid paying $2.76 million in CDPR breach fines like Facebook did (due to 533 million users being scraped) is to buy this data exclusively.
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